A review by exvanlibris
A Distant Magic by Mary Jo Putney

2.0

While the issue of slavery is huge and serious (still) this book was such a thematic or stylistic departure from the first two that I just couldn't get into it. I don't typically like magic in books but I tried this series because I really love a lot of MJP's work. I kinda sorta liked the first two and was becoming accustomed to the magic crap. Then she threw in a heavy, serious slavery story and combined it with time travel. I know some people must luuuuuuvvvv time travel stories but I can't like them. Brain hurt. So this book was just ugh for me all the way through. Add in the rather vague relationship of the main characters (there was too much history lecture going on for the author to have time to develop the possibilities of the romantic story) and this book was just a "no" for me.

I appreciated the information about the early days of the British abolitionist movement but as a romance and an engaging novel, this book fell splat.